Bore ¹

Definition: of Bear

Bore ²

Definition: To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

Bore ³

Definition: To form or enlarge by means of a boring instrument or apparatus; as, to bore a steam cylinder or a gun barrel; to bore a hole.

Bore ⁴

Definition: To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.

Bore ⁵

Definition: To befool; to trick.

Bore ⁶

Definition: To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

Bore ⁷

Definition: To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns; as, this timber does not bore well, or is hard to bore.

Bore ⁸

Definition: To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.

Bore ⁹

Definition: To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; said of a horse.

Bore ¹⁰

Definition: A hole made by boring; a perforation.

Bore ¹¹

Definition: The internal cylindrical cavity of a gun, cannon, pistol, or other firearm, or of a pipe or tube.

Bore ¹²

Definition: The size of a hole; the interior diameter of a tube or gun barrel; the caliber.

Bore ¹³

Definition: A tool for making a hole by boring, as an auger.

Bore ¹⁴

Definition: Caliber; importance.

Bore ¹⁵

Definition: A person or thing that wearies by prolixity or dullness; a tiresome person or affair; any person or thing which causes ennui.

Bore ¹⁶

Definition: A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China.

Bore ¹⁷

Definition: Less properly, a very high and rapid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.

Bore ¹⁸

Definition: imp. of 1st 2d Bear.

bore ¹⁹

Definition: a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes

bore ²⁰

Definition: diameter of a tube or gun barrel

bore ²¹

Definition: a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)

bore ²²

Definition: a person who evokes boredom

bore ²³

Definition: make a hole with a pointed power or hand tool; "don''t drill here, there''s a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"

bore ²⁴

Definition: cause to be bored